About Us
The
University of Chicago was founded in
1892 by John D. Rockefeller, and has the distinct honor of
having 75 members of its community awarded the
Nobel Prize,
including 11 recipients affiliated with the University of
Chicago Hospitals. The University of Chicago Medical Center,
which comprises the Biological Sciences Division and
The
University of Chicago Hospitals, is a 680-bed hospital and a
major teaching institution that occupies 18 interconnected
buildings and has more than 125 specialty outpatient clinics.
The Department of Surgery was started by
Dallas B. Phemister, M.D. in 1926. Dr. Phemister created
Sections of Surgery, including Urology, General Surgery and
Orthopaedic Surgery and recruited prominent individuals to serve
as Section Chiefs. These section chiefs trained the next
generation of academic leaders in all the specialties of
surgery. Although a general surgeon, Dr. Phemister was
considered to be a prominent orthopaedic surgeon; it was he who
first demonstrated how bone tumors could be excised without
amputation. One of his trainees in Urology, Dr. Charles Huggins,
won the Nobel Prize showing the hormonal relationship to
prostate cancer. The first Section Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery
was Dr. Howard Hatcher, who trained over ten physicians who
became chairmen of other academic orthopaedic programs in the
United States. All of these individuals and their trainees were
extremely well versed in orthopaedic oncology and pathology. One
of Dr. Hatcher’s trainees, W. F. Enneking, M.D., became the
leader of orthopaedic oncology in the United States from 1970 to
1990. Another is Michael A. Simon, M.D., who is presently the
Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education at The University of Chicago.
As a trainee of Michael A. Simon, M.D., Terrance Peabody, M.D.
is presently the Chair of Orthopaedics at The
University of Chicago. Thus,
the Section of Orthopaedic Surgery at The University of Chicago has a long, illustrious history in
orthopaedic pathology and oncology through generations.
Last update:
January 11, 2008
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